At just 16, Delhi Public School Jalandhar student Jaesryna Sachdeva has already authored two poetry anthologies. Two years ago, she published a collection of 30 poems titled ‘Verses of the Soul’. She has now come up with another similar collection titled ‘Beneath Still Skies’.The girl has just passed her Class X. “Even though she was in the board class and we wanted her to focus on her studies, we would still spot her penning poems in her diary. I used to be much worried fearing that she might not be able to pause on her passion of writing poems and it affect her academically. But she showed it so well in the CBSE result too. She got 98 per cent marks scoring a perfect 100 in English as well as AI”, said her mother Hardeep Sachdeva, who is a fashion designer based in Phagwara.Jaesryna had recently launched her book at the Jullundur Gymkhana Club. She had also put up a stall of bookmarks, related to themes in her book, that she had herself designed for the occasion. Her new book is a collection of 34 poems, most of them based on nature. “In fact, many of the themes are related to science. I have taken non-medical in Plus One. Some of the topics that I have been learning in science have become my themes for poems. The fifth poem in the book is on ‘Inertia’-the laws of Newton that we study in physics”. She, however says that her personal favourite poem in the new collection has been ‘The Red Moon’ for it has some deeper meanings about the beauty of the moonlit night and the red moon that “beats faintly, even on its deathbed”.Jaesryna says that she got a plenty of time last year to complete her book when she was on a solo trip to Canada. “I wandered there in the gardens, enjoying the nature and getting those vibes to use my pen. I wrote my first poem ‘A Dandelion’s Wish’ while I was in the return flight”, said the teen, who is in the process of forming a book club with her age mates. “My next book is a fiction. I have already penned 60K words for it on my iPad”, she shared.Father of the young poetess and a businessman, Satnam S Sachdeva, says, “We really do not know how our daughter acquired this passion to write. Both of us have never been that good in English Literature or in vocabulary. She has surpassed us both. On our part, we have been offering her the best possible support. She wants to become an architect while keeping writing as her passion and we wish that she is able to fulfil all her dreams.”